题目内容：

Everyday on the way to work I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular ______ my attention. It must have suffered some ______. Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground, and then in an effort to _____ its own course of life. The trunk took a 90-degree turn ______ to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.

This tree became a ______ for me. Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be ______. It was a reminder to me that ______ I may not have had the best start in life, I could change ______ in the parts of my life at any time.

I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect ______ of my kindred-spirit (志趣相同) tree. But that week I was ______. After that busy week, I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would ______ myself, “Tomorrow, I’ll stop tomorrow to take one.” Then one day, as I ______ by “my” tree, I glanced over, and much to my ______, I found a sawed-off stump (树桩) where that symbolic tree had stood. Gone. I had ______ my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too ______.

A picture of a tree is not of great ______. But my lesson rang through clearly ______ I found out one of my colleagues had been ______ with stage-four cancer. He may no longer have many ________.

What have you been putting off? What would you do today if you knew you would _______ have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things that you have been putting off until tomorrow?

1.A. paid       B. caught        C. fixed    D .escaped

2.A. damage     B .influence      C. experience  D. defeat

3.A.continue    B. design        C. change  D. imagine

4.A.applying    B. attempting     C .happening   D. learning

5.A.shelter      B. Signal        C. sign   D. symbol

6.A.interested  B. satisfied     C. encouraged  D. educated

7.A.even though B. as if          C .in case  D. if only

8.A.purpose    B .plan          C. habit    D. direction

9.A. glance     B. view         C. picture    D. knowledge

10.A.busy     B. free          C. worried     D. bored

11.A. call     B. help          C. tell     D. see

12.A.wandered B. drove         C. rode       D .ran

13.A.surprise   B. pleasure    C .regret      D. happiness

14.A.taken off   B. cut off        C. put off    D. called off

15.A.coldB. farC .sunnyD .late

16.A.valueB. achievementC. funD. disappointment

17.A. whenB .beforeC. becauseD. unless

18.A.linkedB .combinedC. providedD. diagnosed

19.A.livesB .tomorrows C. lessonsD .opportunities

20.A.surely      B. almostC. everD. never